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Biography

B.A., University of Tennessee
J.D., Yale Law School

Joined Albany Law School in 2000. Previously in private practice with Winston & Strawn in Chicago, specializing in employment-related appellate litigation; visiting professor at University of Toledo College of Law; law clerk to the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana. Research interests include employment discrimination, federalism, and lesbian and gay rights.

The Court and Rights: The New Federalism and the Undermining of Civil Rights Law--Progressive Federalism?, Presentation at Joint Annual Meetings of the Law and Society Association and the Canadian Law and Society Association, Vancouver, B.C., May 31, 2002

Letter: Judge was right in recent ruling, Albany Times Union, Oct. 12, 2002, at A6

Why Interstate Containment of Same-Sex Marriage Is a Good Interim Policy, (Fall/ Winter 2001) Albany Law School Magazine 14 (2001)

Florida vs. the Supremes: The State High Court's Supreme Efforts Thwarted in the 2000 Election, 3 Government, Law and Policy Journal (New York State Bar Association, Committee on Attorneys in Public Service) 11 (2001)

When There Is No Winner to Take All: Salvaging Political Legitimacy by Splitting Florida's Electoral Votes (Commentary on JURIST: The Legal Education Network)

Letter: If It Walks Like a Bigot..., Washington Post, Jun. 25, 2000, at B06